SWEDEN 🇸🇪
Amanda Aasa is one of the 28 participants of Melodifestivalen but today SVT closed the submissions for the 60th edition of the event. 2545 songs submitted to the broadcaster. Melodifestivalen songs will be chosen from those submissions along invited authors as usual. David Sundin, Linnea Henriksson και Lina Hedlund will host the event.
SWITZERLAND 🇨🇭
Swiss national broadcaster announced second number of submissions for the internal selection. 515 songs submitted to SRF for Rotterdam. Two juries have beens et up to decide ultimately the 2020 representative and song.
❤️Thank you for 515 songs💥
Today at 12:00 the submission period for songs in #Switzerland came to an end. The juries will soon start with the evaluations. ✅#Eurovision #ESC2020 #srfESC #SRF #RTS #RSI #RTR #TeamSRGSSR @SRF @SRGSSR @Eurovision @RTSUnDeux @RSInews @RTRSRG pic.twitter.com/6vBotqQ0La— SRF ESC (@srfesc) September 16, 2019
THE NETHERLANDS 🇳🇱
Dutch YouTuber NikkieTutorials wants to host the Eurovision 2020 greenroom. Nikkie de Jager is the owner of one of the most popular Dutch beauty YouTube channels, with a huge international following of 12.2m subscribers. Her energetic and bubbly personality has attracted several major celebrities, including Drew Barrymore and Kim Kardashian, to appear on her channel! Her unique style of videos can interest even those who couldn’t care less about makeup.
EUROVISION 2020 🇳🇱 It seems that the venue ceiling was not after all the factor which cost Maastricht the hosting of the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest. It seems the city council had a dispute with NPO/NOS. In a secret document which is now public, Maastricht claims that NPO/NOS contract struggle them. The councillor of Finance for Maastricht, John Aarts, was reportedly “in shock” after reading it. Also the council decided not to renovate the venue estimating that it wasn’t worth it. It seems that the city was rejected already from August 8th. The contract was already rejected by the Maastricht city advocate, something that Rotterdam did immediately and without questions.
THE NETHERLANDS 🇳🇱
NIGHTWISH’s Floor Jansen, declared her interest to participate in the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest, something she never thought before, but now that her county hosts the event, she says she’s available for the job. Aside Nightwish, Floor was a singer for After Forever.
AZERBAIJAN 🇦🇿
Ictimai, the Azerbaiajani national broadcaster, has confirmed that Azerbaijan will compete in the forthcoming 2020 Eurovision Song Contest in the Netherlands next year. The broadcaster hasn’t clarified the way they will select their entry and singer but most likely once again there will be an internal selection.
ROMANIA 🇷🇴
TVR is the next broadcaster to confirm participation in the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest.
